In the short story “Salvation” by Langston Hughes I somewhat connected because you can have guilt and feel sad when lying or being lied too. The quote that I most connected with was “But I was really crying because I couldn’t bear to tell her that I had lied, that I had deceived everybody in the church, that I hadn’t seen Jesus, and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus anymore, since he didn’t come to help me.” I would’ve felt really guilty because I wouldn’t be able to hold in something like that especially if its about god.
In the reading “Araby” from James Joyce i have some similarities with it being as the older you get your experiences change with it being life, religion or love. In the story when they” when he saw his girl it was his light”. During times dark, gloomy, or just being spacious a person can really make you feel brightness in you again.
